Champion Jockey Joins Talksport Lineup
Champion jockey AP McCoy OBE is to join international sport radio station, talkSPORT, as a contributor and presenter. McCoy, who was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010, will also become a guest editor of talkSPORT’s sister publication Sport magazine.
From November McCoy will appear on shows including the Richard Keys and Andy Gray show (weekdays 10am-1pm) and weekend programming discussing both horseracing and wider sports news.
He will also host special talkSPORT programmes around key racing events and will guest edit Sport to coincide with the Cheltenham Festival.
Moz Dee, programme director, talkSPORT said: ‘The addition of a talent like AP McCoy to talkSPORT’s presenting line up further emphasises our commitment to investing in top talent and rights. With a prolific knowledge of the racing industry, and as a huge sports fan himself, AP will be the perfect fit for talkSPORT adding to our stable of the best known sports voices.’
AP McCoy added: ‘As a massive Arsenal fan I’ve always been a keen listener of talkSPORT and am very much looking forward to working with the team there. Racing has been so good to me I would like to promote it in the best way possible and, with so many listeners, I think talkSPORT is by far the best place for this.’
talkSPORT reaches three million listeners in the UK alone, and is an official broadcaster of the Barclays Premier League, FA Cup and Aviva Premiership Rugby, as well as recently announcing a new deal to broadcast the Capital One Cup.
